Dom Knigi in Nevsky Prospect. This used to be the Singer Headquarters in Russia before the Revolution. The eagle was removed from the building and in a photo from 1993 is not seen( go to http://www.flickr.com/photos/richardandgill/2737271091/). It was replaced since then. This building is now a bookstore.

A nose roams the street of the Russian Capital...a poem written by Gogol title "The Nose" that now has been inmortalized as a sculture in the wall of a building in St. Petersburg where the author supposed lived. It was stolen 2002, found 2003 and replaced. Art theft is common place in St. Petersbur was well as camera equipment where I was robbed of camera lens.